Antonyms for take for a ride
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rahyd |
| Phonetic Transcription : raɪd |
- abstain
- add
- aid
- assist
- avoid
- be fair
- be honest
- be immune
- be serious
- bear
- build
- construct
- continue
- create
- defer
- destroy
- disallow
- discontinue
- disenchant
- dodge
- donate
- encourage
- establish
- face
- fail
- give
- give birth
- grow
- guard
- heal
- heat
- help
- hold
- idle
- inspirit
- institute
- keep
- let go
- light
- lose
- maintain
- meet
- misconceive
- miss
- misunderstand
- neglect
- offer
- pass
- preserve
- protect
- put off
- ratify
- receive
- refuse
- reject
- release
- repulse
- save
- start
- stop
- undo
- warm
Definition of take for a ride
Origin :- Old English ridan "sit or be carried on" (as on horseback), "move forward; rock; float, sail" (class I strong verb; past tense rad, past participle riden), from Proto-Germanic *ridanan (cf. Old Norse riða, Old Saxon ridan, Old Frisian rida "to ride," Middle Dutch riden, Dutch rijden, Old High Germn ritan, German reiten), from PIE *reidh- "to ride" (cf. Old Irish riadaim "I travel," Old Gaulish reda "chariot").
- Meaning "heckle" is from 1912; that of "have sex with (a woman)" is from mid-13c.; that of "dominate cruelly" is from 1580s. To ride out "endure (a storm, etc.) without great damage" is from 1520s. To ride shotgun is 1963, from Old West stagecoach custom in the movies. To ride shank's mare "walk" is from 1846 (see shank (n.)).
- As in murder : verb kill
- As in string along : verb play with; keep dangling
- As in swindle : verb cheat, steal
- As in take : verb cheat, deceive
- As in trick : verb fool; play joke on
- As in welsh : verb renege, swindle
- As in cheat : verb defraud, fool
- As in do : verb cheat
- As in fleece : verb plunder, steal
- As in flimflam : verb deceive, swindle
- As in gyp : verb rip-off
- As in hoax : verb trick
- As in hoodwink : verb deceive
Synonyms for take for a ride
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- bamboozle
- beat
- beat around the bush
- beat out of
- beguile
- behead
- bilk
- bleed
- blot out
- bluff
- buffalo
- bump off
- bunco
- burn
- butcher
- caboodle
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- chill
- chisel
- chouse
- clip
- con
- cool
- cop out
- coquet
- cozen
- crib
- cross
- dally
- decapitate
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- delude
- despoil
- destroy
- diddle
- disinform
- dispatch
- do
- do a number on
- do in
- dodge
- double deal
- double-cross
- double-deal
- drub
- duck
- dupe
- dust off
- electrocute
- eliminate
- eradicate
- execute
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extort
- fake
- fake out
- fast talk
- fiddle
- finagle
- finish
- fleece
- flimflam
- flirt
- fool
- frame
- fudge
- gammon
- garotte
- gip
- give bum steer
- gouge
- guillotine
- gull
- gyp
- hang
- hit
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwink
- hornswoggle
- hose
- hustle
- impose upon
- jerk around
- jive
- kid
- knife
- knock off
- lead on
- liquidate
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- milk
- mislead
- misuse
- mulct
- murphy
- off
- outwit
- overcharge
- overreach
- play for a fool
- play games with
- pluck
- pull a fast one
- pull one's leg
- pull something
- pull the wool over one's eyes
- pull wool over
- put away
- put one over on
- ream
- rifle
- rip off
- rob
- rook
- rope in
- rub out
- ruin
- run a game on
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- sell a bill of goods
- set up
- shaft
- shoot
- short
- shuck
- skin
- slaughter
- slay
- slip out
- smother
- snow
- snuff
- spoil
- steal
- stick
- stiff
- sting
- strangle
- strip
- suck in
- sucker
- swindle
- take
- take a life
- take advantage of
- take for a ride
- take in
- take out
- take to the cleaners
- thrash
- throw
- toy
- trap
- trick
- trifle
- trim
- two-time
- victimize
- wanton
- waste
- weasel
- worm one's way out of
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